It's Not A Job, It's a Paid Experience!
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It’s Not a Job… It’s a Paid Experience! Student Employment Best Practices from the Rondileau Campus Center Staff Presented by: Ed Cabellon Director, Rondileau Campus Center [email protected] October 7, 2009
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This was presented as part of the "Lunch and Learn" series at Bridgewater State College, geared for supervisors of student employees. The goal was to share best practices as to how to get the most out of student employees and integrate them into your staff.
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It’s Not a Job…It’s a Paid Experience!Student Employment Best Practices from the
Rondileau Campus Center Staff
Presented by: Ed CabellonDirector, Rondileau Campus Center
[email protected] 7, 2009
Overview / Learning Outcomes• Find out who your
“students” are• How to create a “paid
experience” for your student employee(s)
• Find out what your students are learning by working with you and your office
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Gen Y Characteristics:
• Strong-willed, Strong-willed, passionate, and passionate, and optimisticoptimistic• Care about Care about the world and the world and its problemsits problems• Technologically Technologically SavvySavvy• Family CentricFamily Centric• Achievement Achievement OrientatedOrientated• Team-OrientedTeam-Oriented• Crave Crave AttentionAttention
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The Class of ‘13 Mindset (Beloit College):- Text has always been hyper.- Cable television systems have always offered telephone service and vice versa.- They have always been able to read books on an electronic screen.- There have always been flat-screen televisions.- Everyone has always known what the evening news was before the Evening News came on.- Migration of once independent media like radio, TV, videos, and compact discs to the computer has never amazed them.
How do we create a “Paid Experience” for our student employees?
Step 1: Build a
Relationship
Step 2: Identify What
They Will Learn by
Working With You
Step 4: Integrate them into your staff!
Step 3: Utilize the “Sandwich
Model”
Have Your Have Your Students Students Learned Learned
Anything?Anything?
You need to look (and listen) closely to find out!You need to look (and listen) closely to find out!
Learning Outcomes Achieved?
What types of assessment tools does your office use?
You need something in order to findout what your students are learning!
Change your point of view!Change your point of view!
Don’t give your student employees a “job”,Don’t give your student employees a “job”,Give them at “paid experience!”Give them at “paid experience!”
To have a copy of this presentation, please email Ed!
